Looking for a 20-player social game

We found "What's It To Ya" to be a nice game that you can run with large groups, but you don't use the rules in the book. You play it with a "hot seat" type of play. Here's the BGG entry:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5772

The "hot seat" method basically has one person setting their choices in order from a-e (1-5) based on their idea of importance. Everyone else orders the words on how they thing the hot seat player is going to play. You get a point for each one you get right.

It allows you to get to know how people think and if you want the hot seat player to explain their choices after each round, you can also gain a little more insight on how their brain works. To me, that's always been the point of team building. And it's cheap at fairplaygames.com:

http://www.fairplaygames.com/gamedisplay.asp?gameid=4291

$8.75, though you may have to buy two sets to cover that many people.

For a while I was designing games of this sort, usually with an eye towards use in teaching groups this or that. One game I was testing extensively for a while (Inner Circle) still had a group playing it when I last was in touch, a couple of years (gak!) after I introduced them to it. Unfortunately, the games I was creating tended to be either short-term teaching aids, or long-term Diplomacy-length (or longer) betrayal-fests.

Is there some theme that must be matched, considering this is an addition to a workshop?

... Haggle (Sid Sackson) It's a fantastic large-group game, but it works best when run alongside something else, rather than as a game in its own right. Basically, at the start of the session, everyone gets a random set of cards and a couple of rules (from a large ruleset.) They trade their cards and rules, in an attempt to figure out what the best set of cards actually is, and then try to get it. At a deadline point, everyone hands their cards in, and the sets are scored (I use a spreadsheet for this.)

It's beautifully scalable and leads to some creative deal-making (Sackson recounts one game where someone traded the "prize for winning" away for the winning cards!) And the best bit about it is that participation is as active as you want to be - a player can simply not trade and it won't affect the outcome of the game in the slightest.

I'd also seriously recommend Hollywood Lives! as a team-building exercise but with a twist. It's a sort of live-action semi-role-playing game, where you make trailers for movies and try to win awards. Again, a game design that handles all extremes of player participation (the last game of it I played we had to produce a poster for our movie as well, which was an amusing side game for those of us who preferred not to do the "acting" bit!)

I hadn't thought about it that way, but that wouldn't be a bad idea.

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...You're kidding, right?

I mean, yeah, as far as gaming goes, its hard to imagine a more social sort of game than the interactive storytelling present in an RPG...

...However problems often start to occur once you get to group sizes larger than about 6 for them. I can't imagine the headaches a 20 person session would cause... (In fact, more than about 7 players and you'd probably start getting zone of control problems in addition to what seems to be exponential issues revolving around player attention and the like)

...Or at least for tabletop RPGs played irl. Live Action RPGs apparently scale upwards easier. (And there are pleanty of non-commercial RPGs, mostly rules light, available for free from your local internet if you search)

I'd probably go with 'Haggle throughout the event' for 20 people, personally, though if you're looking for a something specific to end the day that's not really a good response.

(...As for werewolf, while management nixed it because of the violence and so it can't be used in this case, what's stopping a 20 person game of that hypothetically?)